Searching Econlit

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Searching Econlit

• A database for identifying economics journal
  articles, working papers, and some books

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Connect to Econlit

• From UA Libraries webpage
• Databases tab at top of page
• Can search from off-campus
• Need Campus Computing ID

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Type Econlit in text box
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Click on
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Three topical examples

• Cigarette demand
• Crime prevention
• Family size and consumption
• Want empirical articles for all 3 topics

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Start Searching with keywords

• e.g. cigarette demand

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Searching for phrase Cigarette demand
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Search returns list of 45
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Increase search results by

• Searching for cigarette(s) AND demand
• Use truncation symbol to get singular and
  plural version of words
• i.e. cigarette

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Use symbol to get either cigarette or
cigarettes
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Econlit Subject Headings

• Every article is assigned subject headings based
  on topic/content of article
• Can use to get more precise search results

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Narrow results to just Empirical papers With
Subject Heading
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Empirical articles on the Demand for cigarettes
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Very few articles actually Available from within
Econlit
Article in Econlit
Article NOT in Econlit
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Click on Icon to get article from some other
database
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Article avail. From 3 databases
Best choice- publisher
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More Like This

• Econlit offers ability to get more articles like
  the one you are currently looking at

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Searches these
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Subject headings
Health is broader than Cigarette demand
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Articles on alcohol-not cigarettes
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Another TopicCrime Prevention

• Synonyms to think about?
• E.g. prevention or deterrence
• Plurals to think about? (probably not)
• Search as phrase? Or as 2 keywords?

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How to limit to empirical Papers? -No empirical
Subject to narrow by
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Use words that would be used in an abstract of an
empirical article

• e.g. data, statistics, empirical

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Narrowed by key terms
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Besides journal articles

• Econlit also includes
• Working or Discussion papers
• Chapters from Books

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Journal article
Discussion paper
Working paper
Journal article
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Working/discussion paper
Link to working paper
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Article in Book
Article
Book series
No link must search UA Library Catalogue to
find book
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Click
Set to title
Book
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Click for e-book
Print books
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Scroll down
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Another Topic

• Family size and consumption

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Keyword search
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Limit to empirical articles
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Another strategy

• Search with Subject heading
• Eg. Consumer Economics Empirical Analysis

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Set to Subject
Added keyword to be more Specific (i.e. family)
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Need More Help?
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